Snowy walk in woods will help you forget time

9:30 PM,
Mar. 26, 2013

Cheryl Capages, new columnist. Dean Curtis/News-Leader

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This last snow day, I took my trusty cellphone with its remarkable little camera to stomp about my 8.4 acres of woods. I attempted to catch the magic all around me in pictures and met with modest success.

As my boots crunched the snow, the world's problems zoomed into perspective and fell away from my mind. I was suddenly - astonishingly - quite present to the now. It's amazing how easily and naturally the warm canopy of a 100-year-old cedar tree could provide such a timeless sanctuary. Snow continued to fall, but under the tree there existed a magical snow-free circle of safety, warmth and a ...